YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Nursing Reflections
Essays 1981 - 2010
train sufficient numbers of new nurses. Turnover is high among those who remain in the profession, and those so dissatisfied - an...
(1999), research shows that the level of education reached by an RN contributes to a sense of professional autonomy and those nurs...
lethal drug is given with the intent to bring about death, thus ending suffering" (28). Of course, there is a difference between ...
to physicians. Increasingly, "evidence-based guidelines are becoming codes of medical practice" (Healy, 2005; p. 54). Superficia...
over their blood glucose levels; and (3) encouraging continuous improvement in nursing knowledge and patient education. The progr...
a nurses role as a change agent in data base management. Fonville, Killian, and Tranbarger (1998) note that successful nurses of ...
the "number of initial admissions with at least one readmission divided by total discharges excluding deaths" (Lagoe, et al., 1999...
her, per se, but rather with her expectations of Madeline, which are not age appropriate. The scenario says that Madeline knows be...
and safety" (ANA, 2005). After all, if a nurse does not take steps to preserve her or his own safety, the nurse cannot adequately ...
on an evidenced based evidence based practice and the development of increased individual accountability in the area of clinical g...
they visited, and some tended to visit fairly frequently (Demling et al, 2002). Patients in general were very positive about thei...
The ANCI Competency Unit 4 demands that nurses accept accountability and responsibility for their actions in nursing. To do so we...
greater demand on health care services as more of them cross that line from employed to retired. Projections are just that,...
the basic paradigms of nursing professional theory are considered within a social context. For example, health is defined as a "dy...
considering this economic downturn, the numbers of undergraduates pursuing nursing careers began to also decline. In 1991, Canada ...
learned long ago the value of yet another Deming (1986) exhortation, that of continuous improvement. By definition, the concept i...
Working for the well-staffed working environment in itself is no small task, given the fact of the ongoing nursing shortage. The ...
reporting. Lukas (2004) outlines the problems associated with pain well by pointing out that the potential for postoperative pain ...
the disease as well as around the prevention of the spread of the causative organism to other individuals that come into contact w...
that the doctrine of informed consent is "hopelessly flawed--or at least misguided," as it is often not possible to truly inform ...
Sharon Bernier, RN, PhD and President of the National Organization for Associate Degree Nursing, points out that Aikens study also...
One examination that does not qualify as a scientific study is an assessment by Macknick (1998) of how nursing homes market themse...
"What, will you not suffer me? Nay, now I see / She is your treasure, she must have a husband; / I must dance bare-foot on her we...
of spirituality is not uniform and that "spirituality" as a term is frequently used as a synonym for religion, which is not necess...
18 to 89 years old. All of the members of the aggregate have been referred to the alternative program by a physician, ensuring th...
The non-technical interpretation of the results of a study is presented and assessed in the Discussion section. The Introduction ...
of burnout for nurses appears to be equivalent to the stress level associated with their particular assignment, as well as the ind...
four-year Bachelor of Science degree to become a registered nurse. But to a fourteen-year-old, college still seems like a distant...
on Nursing" in 1860 which not only documented basic concepts of nursing care but also included basic research strategies such as o...
if they are simple and straightforward. These patient data records will be replaced weekly, and each will contain a weeks worth o...